On 8/2/22, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Mon, 1 Aug 2022, Lee wrote: > >> Verizon FIOS finally rolled out IPv6 in my area. yay! I'd like for >> my Debian server to have a static IPv6 address.. same as I have for >> IPv4. But how to do that? >> >> I have a Netgate firewall that does a dhcp6 request for a /56 from >> Verizon, then the firewall delegates a /64 to each internal subnet. >> >> I haven't been able to figure out how to assign a static address when >> the network part might [will] change.. so I've got everything using >> managed addresses (ie. dhcp6). So effectively the server has a static >> address, but still.. I'd rather not depend on DHCPv6 >> >> Thoughts on how2? >> > Not sure I exactly understand what you want but you can specify the > local part of an SLAAC ipv6 address thus: > > iface eth0 inet6 auto > pre-up echo 64 >>/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen > pre-up ip token set ::0123:4567:a9ab:cdef/64 dev eth0
Yes!! That looks like what I want. Where does it go if I want to always done at boot time? Thanks Lee
